How can blogs and wikis be useful in the classroom?
Blogs and wikis provide infinite possibilities for collaboration amongst students and educators alike. Tech & Learning is a great place to start if you are looking for ideas about how to infuse technology into your classroom (subscribe to receive email updates with the latest headlines). A great article by David Warlick explains the advantages to using wikis as a collaborative tool for students, teachers, administrators, and parents. You can also follow David's blog about his own thoughts on education and technology.
Wikis can be useful any time students need to collaborate on a project. In a science class, students often work together in lab groups and then write a lab report. Rather than each student writing their own lab report, they could collaborate on some or all portions of the report. In what other ways can/do students collaborate in the science classroom? In what ways could collaboration help students to understand the content? The answers to these questions could lead to a multitude of other ways to use wikis in the classroom.
Wikispaces and Blackboard aren't the only sites to use in education. Tech & Learning lists several other options in this list of Top 25 Web 2.0 Sites for Educators. Glogster and Kidblog are two that are designed specifically for student blogging.
Blogs and wikis provide infinite possibilities for collaboration amongst students and educators alike. Tech & Learning is a great place to start if you are looking for ideas about how to infuse technology into your classroom (subscribe to receive email updates with the latest headlines). A great article by David Warlick explains the advantages to using wikis as a collaborative tool for students, teachers, administrators, and parents. You can also follow David's blog about his own thoughts on education and technology.
Teacher and blogger Vicki Davis is also full of ideas about technology in the classroom, which she chronicles in her Cool Cat Teacher blog. Find out how she uses wikis in the classroom, specfic steps for introducing wikis to students, as well as her thoughts on areas where wiki use could use some improvements.
Wikis can be useful any time students need to collaborate on a project. In a science class, students often work together in lab groups and then write a lab report. Rather than each student writing their own lab report, they could collaborate on some or all portions of the report. In what other ways can/do students collaborate in the science classroom? In what ways could collaboration help students to understand the content? The answers to these questions could lead to a multitude of other ways to use wikis in the classroom.
Wikispaces and Blackboard aren't the only sites to use in education. Tech & Learning lists several other options in this list of Top 25 Web 2.0 Sites for Educators. Glogster and Kidblog are two that are designed specifically for student blogging.